{"id":636851,"date":"2026-10-21T01:06:09","date_gmt":"2026-10-21T01:06:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/636851\/"},"modified":"2026-10-21T01:06:09","modified_gmt":"2026-10-21T01:06:09","slug":"rrvpg-annual-plein-air-art-exhibit-awards-presented-at-coliseum-museum-in-oregon-shaw-local","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/636851\/","title":{"rendered":"RRVPG annual Plein Air art exhibit awards presented at Coliseum Museum in Oregon \u2013 Shaw Local"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-xb1qmn-0 gBIiEi body-paragraph\">Awards were presented for the Rock River Valley Painters Guild annual Plein Air art exhibit at the awards reception at the Coliseum Museum in downtown <a href=\"https:\/\/www.shawlocal.com\/tags\/oregon\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.shawlocal.com\/tags\/oregon\/\">Oregon<\/a> on Friday, Oct. 9.<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-xb1qmn-0 gBIiEi body-paragraph\">Rockford artist and judge Jean Apgar recognized the following artists who entered their artwork in the exhibit on display at the Coliseum Museum from Sept. 1-Oct. 31.<\/p>\n<p>First place to Dick Cholke of Pecatonica for his watercolor \u201cRain Barrel\u201d Second place to Lucinda Winterfield of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.shawlocal.com\/tags\/dixon\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.shawlocal.com\/tags\/dixon\/\">Dixon<\/a> for her acrylic \u201cOld Renne Farm\u201d Third place to Tom Linden of Rockford for his watercolor \u201cUp Your Alley\u201d Honorable Mention to Terry Werntz of Freeport for his oil \u201cSunday Afternoon\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-xb1qmn-0 gBIiEi body-paragraph\">The RRVPG annual Plein Air Art Exhibit features 35 works of art by 13 artists from across northern Illinois in acrylic, oil, pastel and watercolor. <\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-xb1qmn-0 gBIiEi body-paragraph\">Visitors are also allowed to vote for their favorite art piece, with the People\u2019s Choice winner announced at the close of the exhibit on Oct. 31. The Coliseum Museum is open from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Wednesday through Saturday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Awards were presented for the Rock River Valley Painters Guild annual Plein Air art exhibit at the awards&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":636852,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[1228,442,498,499,500,10779,501,84394,156,256,3586,111,139,69,285256,27671,45102],"class_list":["post-636851","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-arts-and-design","tag-art","tag-arts","tag-arts-and-design","tag-artsanddesign","tag-artsdesign","tag-awards","tag-design","tag-dixon","tag-entertainment","tag-local-news","tag-museum","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-ogle-county","tag-oregon","tag-rockford"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/636851","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=636851"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/636851\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/636852"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=636851"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=636851"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=636851"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}